
D. S. Abdelminaam et al.: CoAID-DEEP: An Optimized Intelligent Framework
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that there is no conflict of interest.
Non-financial competing interests.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
All authors contributed equally to this paper, where Diaa
Salama participated in sorting the experiments, discussed
and analyzed the results, performed the experiments and
analyzed the results, wrote the paper, discussed the result,
and revised/edited the manuscript. Mohamed Taha, and
Ahmed Taha: performed the experiments and analyzed the
results s and wrote the paper. Fatma Helmy: discussed the
results and wrote the paper. Ayma Nabil: discussed the results
and revised the paper. Essam H Houssein: analyzed the results
and revised the paper. All authors reads and approved the
work in this paper.
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